The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| a PARTISAN recently sent q patn1uD 10 gen
tleman in Naples as a present and received
note a day or two after asking when the oars
were coming
IT is growing fashionable for superintendent
| of aImshouses in Michigan to insure the lives
of paupers under their charge, and there is
marked increase in the death rate at such IN
| stitutions.
FREE LIBRARY is being established in New
York by the Odd Fellows of that city, and nearly
| 25. 900 books have been secured by charging one
| book for each admission to entertainments IN
the interest Of the enterprise.
AT Forli, Italy, what appears TO be very
ancient tomb has been found under street con
| timing the remains of the skeleton of warrior,
| leaf-shaped lance heads of iron, fibule, and
| great number of small vases and urns OF pot
| terry.
! PEANUTS, a correspondent of the Boston
! Transcript AYERS, worked n cure OF nervous
| dyspepsia insomnia and great thirst" in his
| (Gr herr case. The peanuts were eaten for
| desert after each meal, all drugs being lei
| alone.
| GEN. LEE one day found DR.. Cutting, an army
surgeon, who was a handsome and dressy man,
arranging his cravat complacently before
glass: Cutting" said Lee, you must be the 1,,
| happiest man in creation why, General?'
| Because you are in love with yourself, and
| have not a rival on the earth. y"
| The JAPANESE have queer way of speaking
| to their wives. Not long ago one of the mis-
sionares was visiting in the country. When he
arrived at the place where he was going to stop
| the farmer met him at the door, took him into
| cosy room, and then called his wife and intro
| duced her as my fool of wife"
| \ YOUNG WOMAN of Beaver Falls, Pa, is so
charged with electricity that hairpin which
she wore in her head all day was magnetized
| HILL tIa.
| points, When the young Womans hair is
| stroked in the dark it emitS sparks, and to
| touch her is to receive q shock as from mag
| netic battery.
| AS illustrating the advance made in ocean
| steamship service the Captain Of a Cunarder
says that the Brittania, built in 1889, burned
forty-four tons of coal a day, and made eight
| knots ar hour but the vessel he now commands
| burns 800 tons day and makes eighteen knots
an hour. The carrying capacity has Increased
| more even than the speed in proportion to the
| QnOunt of coal used. The coal used by the
CunarderS foots up 35J 264 tons year, or nearly
| 1000 tons day.
A GHOST" London papers state, greatly
scared the people of a suburb of that city late
| y until one night number of men secreted
| themselves near one of its haunts The spectre
| duly appeared in the form of figure clothed
| in white, with blackened face. Hands were in
| stantly laid upon the ghost, who was discovered
| to be prominent member of the Salvation
| Army. He was ruthlessly stripped of his gar
| ments and sound tiogging was administered,
Notwithstanding his entreatieS and prOteStatiOnS
that it was only joke.
| NJ. H. MosMAN, the sculptor, has been given
| the commission to execute in bronze the euues-
trian statue of Ulysses S. Grant for the city of
Chicago. The statue is now being modelled by
the sculptor Redisso at Cincinnati O.. and it will
be the largest equestrian figure ever cast in this
country, being 1874 feet high from the base to
the top or the riders head. Mr.. Mosman has,
among many finished statues at his studio and
workshop in Chicopee Mass, one of Ericsson,
the NorSeman soon to be erected in Boston: q
soldiers statue, with accompanying tablets and
rellefs, for the town of Brattleboro; and he IS
busy on statue of Hale for the Capitol at
Hartford
CANON FARRAR suffered some of the trials of
fame while in Wilmington, where he lectured
for one night. There was three-day's tennis
tournament in progress at the time, and on the
day following the lecture local sheet appeared
with the following paragraph: mir. -, the
champion lawn tennis player of the Southern
States, is guest of the Rt. Rev. Bishop Lee.
Canon Farrar is also a guest of Bishop Lee
When the Canon was shown the paragraph he
laughed at the place given him and said 1T
would be just the same at home. might save
great many souls indeed if could get as many
people to come to hear me preach as would go
to see the Renshaws play tennis.
In an article published in one of the French
scientific journals the writer states that, from
comparison made by him of the results of ami
NAL and steam power, as employed in France at
least, the first named is really the cheaper
motor; that is, in the conversion of chemical to
mechanical energy, so per cent. was found to be
lost in the machine, against SO in the animal
He has also found that the steam horse power,
contrary to the belief generally entertained, is
often materially exceeded by that of the horse.
| Thus the cost of traction on the MontparnaSse-
Bastille line of railways proved to be for each
car, daily, some 57f., while the same work when
| performed by the horse cost not exceeding AT.
In view of these and similar facts bearing on the
question, the conclusion arrived at is that, for
moderate powers, the conversion of chemical to
mechanical energy is more economically effected
through animals than through steam engines.
A VERY VALUABLE MONKEY is the chacma Of
Africa When young this babboon is very
teachable, and is often Kept by the Kaff1rs as a
domestic animal He takes the place of dog
growing when stranger comes near; and if it
becomes necessary to defend his masters prop
erty he Is much stronger than any dog. The
chacma easily learns to blow the bellows of a
smith and to drive horses or oxen; but his great
est use in that country is to find water. In the
hot season, when the earth is parched, and
springs and streams are dry, the owner of tame
chacma takes him out to hunt for the water
they all must have. The intelligent monkey
| seems to know what is wanted, or perhaps he
knows by his own feelings what to look for and
he goes carefully over the ground looking
earnestly at every tuft OF grass and eagerly
shifting the breeze on every side. Whether he
scents it or not is not known, but if there is
water in the neighborhood he is sure to find it,
1t may be deep spring, in which case he sets to
work digging down to it; and it may be a certain
very juicy root, which often serves instead of
water He gets that out also, and let us hope he
has his full share of it in pay for his work.
A PROFESSOR in a certain musical college once
told me of pupil who attended his lectures-a
young woman from some remote place like
Seattle or Los Angeles, who attracted his atten-
ton by her extreme devotion to her work her
pupil solid with the faculty Moreover, she
was beautiful as the day, with large and
statuesque beauty, as of a strong, full nature
serene calm, and undisturbed But, alas, when
the examinations came and papers were handed
in, hers was found TO be simply impossible. 1t
was evident that behind that Juno-like brow
there were no brains; In fact, such paper
was never seen before; even the spell
ing was ludicrous while grammar
and music were equally injured and
outraged in every line. Tears could not move
my stern friend, and the report was mot
passed" But 1t was minated TO him that there
were reasons why it was absolutely essential
that the pupil should graduate, while her
knowledge might be acquired 'afterward. Ac-
cordingly, she applied for a reorganization and
the questions were something like this l. Is
not the symphony the highest form Of purely
musical expression? :. Was not Berlioz re
markahe for his mastery of ingenious orches-
trail effects? Q. Is not Bach called the father of
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